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US
/ˌsoʊˈmɑtɪk/
]
[ UK /səmˈætɪk/ ]
[ UK /səmˈætɪk/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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affecting or characteristic of the body as opposed to the mind or spirit
corporeal suffering
a corporal defect
a somatic symptom or somatic illness
bodily needs
How To Use somatic In A Sentence
- Because the disorder is specific to B cells, it may be a candidate for somatic gene therapy.
- At the same time, the information of flax biotechnology of anther culture, haploid breeding, utilization of somatic mutation, protoplasmic culture, gene transformation were introduced in detail.
- For those practising massage, bodywork and manipulative therapies, these somatic dysfunctions are vital to the assessment of musculoskeletal integrity.
- That which medicine can't explain we tend to label psychosomatic and blame the patient, a cruel phenomenon all too familiar to those who've had MS, rheumatoid arthritis, and lupus, and a myriad of other ailments in decades past. John Falk: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome And Psychotherapy
- This manipulation was initially restricted to embryo culture and nodal micropropagation, but it has recently been extended to somatic embryogenesis.
- Gene manipulation, as it's being performed now, is gene manipulation of what we call somatic cells. CNN Transcript - Special Event: Millennium 2000: Cancer - January 2, 2000
- Mental and physical exhaustion retards the growth of body and mind, and it often causes a psychosomatic illness.
- If the mutation occurs in a somatic cell, it can cause altered cell growth (e.g., cancer) or cell death (e.g., teratogenesis) in the exposed person. Toxicity
- I may say that in the physical aspect of tics we have a specific somatic manifestation which, if explained, should, in a way, be the gateway toward the understanding of the many somatic symptoms which we find in the psychoneuroses and psychoses. The Journal of Abnormal Psychology
- We have identified the psychosomatic traits in modern medicine linked to the reversible unbalance of qi, blood, and body fluid in ill-health.